1: the MOS / Commodore KIM-1 was the worlds first single board computer, released in 1976
2: the Commodore PET was the worlds first recognizable computer. It was announced and released several months before the TRS80 or Apple I
3: Apple I through III all used Commodore / MOS CPU's. Therefore no Commodore, no Apple (Motorola and Intel were just too slow to market and way too expensive for home users)
4: Commodore sold more computers than anyone prior to 1985/6. They were the first computer company to sell a million units of anything and were the first computer company to have a billion dollars in sales. To this day Commodore is credited by the Guiness Book of Records for having the best selling single computer in history, The Commodore 64.
5: The juggernaught that was Commodore took 10 years of bad decisions to go bankrupt after its founder and visionary Jack Tramiel quit in, you guessed it 1985.
It is definately true that Jobs and Apple made an enormous contribution to the PC/Home Computer world but it is just plain wrong to claim that Apple was responsible for the growth or development the PC market. Without any question Commodore was the single most important driver behind the genesis of home computing and Commodore is the only company that can legitimately claim such a title.
For a mid-80's validation of Commodore's total dominance click the COMMODORE VIC-20 STARTED HOME COMPUTING link on http://www.commodore.ca/gallery/video/video.htm/ which is from the TV show The Computer Chronicles in December of 1985.
Not to be too argumentative but old computers are already collectable. I know of dozens of people with such collections and check http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=5 81&e=3&cid=581&u=/nm/20030105/tc_nm/tech_computers _dc from just yesterday to see what Yahoo says about it.
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CORRECTED LINKS
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Sorry, I incorrectly added a slash to all of the links above. Below are the corrected links:
http://www.commodore.ca/products/default.htm
http://www.commodore.ca/gallery/video/video.htm
http://www.commodore.ca/history/company/6502/6500
The key (and indisputable) facts are well documented:
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http://www.commodore.ca/products/default.htm/
1: the MOS / Commodore KIM-1 was the worlds first single board computer, released in 1976
2: the Commodore PET was the worlds first recognizable computer. It was announced and released several months before the TRS80 or Apple I
3: Apple I through III all used Commodore / MOS CPU's. Therefore no Commodore, no Apple (Motorola and Intel were just too slow to market and way too expensive for home users)
4: Commodore sold more computers than anyone prior to 1985/6. They were the first computer company to sell a million units of anything and were the first computer company to have a billion dollars in sales. To this day Commodore is credited by the Guiness Book of Records for having the best selling single computer in history, The Commodore 64.
5: The juggernaught that was Commodore took 10 years of bad decisions to go bankrupt after its founder and visionary Jack Tramiel quit in, you guessed it 1985.
It is definately true that Jobs and Apple made an enormous contribution to the PC/Home Computer world but it is just plain wrong to claim that Apple was responsible for the growth or development the PC market. Without any question Commodore was the single most important driver behind the genesis of home computing and Commodore is the only company that can legitimately claim such a title.
For a mid-80's validation of Commodore's total dominance click the COMMODORE VIC-20 STARTED HOME COMPUTING link on http://www.commodore.ca/gallery/video/video.htm/ which is from the TV show The Computer Chronicles in December of 1985.
For the amazing list of hughly successful computers which used the Commodore 6502 CPU click the 6502 link at the top of this article:
http://www.commodore.ca/history/company/6502/6500
Not to be too argumentative but old computers are already collectable. I know of dozens of people with such collections and check http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=5 81&e=3&cid=581&u=/nm/20030105/tc_nm/tech_computers _dc from just yesterday to see what Yahoo says about it.